Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-18
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DIVA

annual picnic on the 10th.
A large force OF beggars are rounding up
the charitable in Humboldt.
Five thousand strangers we're tn Iowa City
during the A. o. II. reunion last week.
The Fort Dodge rink is to be transformed
into a business block by Its new owner.
The bridge site question at Council Bluffs
has not yet been decided by Secretary Endi-
! colt.
The free delivery System has been ordered
| for Waterloo, Marshall, Clinton and Mus
c%atine, to go in force July /.
The Mofrell & Co. ~artesian well at Ottumwa
has been tested and found to nave a pressure
1 of thirty pounds to the square inch.
Omaha and Council Bluffs boatmen are
fraternizing. The boating club OF the Ne
braska town has been presented grounds on
the Manawa beach by the Bluffs Rowing as
ISOLATION.
| The Council Bluffs bridge dispute is still
undecided. The secretary Of war is away
from Washington or a ten days pleasure
trip, and his decision is not looked for until
his return.
J4i'iild bdu 4hiic u hiaa-toE cN"iN chb NoJ
last week, a big black dog having tumblet
dow In commissions and afterward snapped
at children. The unlucky canine was fol
lowed and shot.
Gov. Larrabee has been invited by the
| chamber of of Findlcy, Ohio, to at
| tend a celebration TO be held there June s, &
and 10, to commemorate the anniversary OF
finding natural gas there.
The mayor of Des Moines has ben fined
seven different times for violations OF ordi.
nances he worked hard to have passed, and
now threatens to resign unless the police LEI
up on their tomfoolery.
The Santa Fc Railway company will erect
a hospital two miles below Fort Madison,
The buildings viii cost probably 500, 900, and
the institution will be the most perfect rail,
road hospital in the country.
James O'Connell, Of Eldorado township,
Benton county, died on Friday from the eff
feet OF wounds inflicted by Cicero Tanner
Tanner was arrested and placed under bonds
OF $40, coo, which he furnished.
A carrier-pigeon was taken from Decorat
to Quincy, H., and released last Friday, and
made the return trip, a distance Of 325 miles
In niue hours. After a few days rest it viii
be taken to st. Louis and released.
-Four Davenport young men spent a night
at the Donahue house, said to be Inhabited
by spooks. The nearest approach to a ghos
that they were able to find was an able
bodied skunk with wonderful p~erfumery
powers.
Millions Of voracious worms are at work OF
the shade trees Of Fort Madison, and unless
something Is lone to satiate their greed TIA
verdure. The worms are from an inch TO al
inch and a half In length.
Two Dubuque men, Frank Suess and Her
man Dreahse, were overcome by fire damp II
a cistern In which fire had been built TO dr.
the walls, and both the men are in a critica
condition, Dreahse being temporarily insane
A swarm Of bees was discovered in q Cali
fornia fruit car at Council Bluffs transfer las
Thursday, having had a free ride from Cali
fornta. They will probably furnish a first
class entertainment for some one when th
car reaches its destination.
A Cedar Rapids woman arranged a mar
rage Ietween her 1917 ear-old daughter and
man old enough to be the girls grandfather
on condition that the man would supper
the family. The bridegroom kept his promis
for a week, and then left for parts unknown
Criminals have al easy time OF 1t In De
Moines, generally being discharged for wan
Of evidence after having been arrested. Tn
Register is of the opinion that the matte
could In a large degree be remedied by tn
election Of a police judge.
A force OF men employed In blasting In
Dubuque stone quarry broke through into al
immense cavern. The cave was found 10 b.
very large with the roof covered with beauti
full spar, stalagmites and stalactites. 1t la
not yet been thoroughly explored.
Theodore, the IS year old son Of Capt. c
w. Hoff, Of Anita, was fatally shot Saturda,
afternoon by the careless firing Of a revolve
In tie hands of o young cousin, while speed
ing their nsgs from a Sabbath school picni
to the burning farm residence OF H.. j. Tay
lor.
The attendance at the state university tn
past year has been Isl students, against so.
the year before. The graduating class con
sists of thirteen females and thirty males
sixteen have taken the scientific course, sly
classical, sixteen philosophical, and five en-
cheering.
Beer TO the value of about $500 was de.
stroyed at Fort Dodge last Friday, the bev-
| erage having been seized fl ON the brewery of
John Kohl and condemned by the court The
friends OF the brewer made considerable re.
sistence to the officers and ire sheriff was
obliged to send for a posse Of special police
to assist him.
An Osceola county farmer named Wilson
set fire TO a pile OF rubbish and manure not
more than twenty-five or thirty feet from his
barn, and allowed 1t to burn and shoulder
for several days In spite OF warnings by his
neigbbors. In time the wind changed and
Wilson lost his barn, two horses, a new COW
cred carriage and two sets Of harness. No
insurance.
For the beueft OF Frank Pierce, the Des
Moines constable, IL Is noticed that the pen
atty for pcrjury-the crime he is now under a
double indictment for-is both a fine not ey-
~ceeaing $1,000 and Imprisonment not exceed
Ing five years; and the party is DISTINGUISHED
for life and disqualified from testtfying In the